Truly we are living in the golden age of the grifter. From Fyre Fest to the WeWork empire to Theranos to the personal development cult NXIVM, we see a charismatic person promising us endless growth, pleasure or wealth and we give them all our money.
The con-man economy doesn’t just stop at the men and women leading these frauds and profiting wildly from them.
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